It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

Party honesty is party expediency.

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the misfortune of others, the capitalist may protect himself by hoarding or may even find profit in the fluctuations of values; but the wage earner - the first to be injured by a depreciated currency and the last to receive the benefit of its correction - is practically defenseless.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.